This course is designed to provide leaders and professionals with a set of transformational tools and techniques to help them maximize their own and their team’s creative potential in a strategic context. Its starting-point is self-discovery: participants will work on the inside first and then focus outwards to impact on the world of business.
The focus of the first week of this 2-week seminar will be on thinking in different ways. Participants should be prepared to move out of their comfort zone and experiment with new ways of creating and communicating an inspiring leadership vision.
The second week helps demystify the frequently-misunderstood concept of ‘strategy’. Whilst focusing on the analytical disciplines on which a successful strategy is based, it centers on strategic planning as a value-adding process that harnesses the leader’s and the team’s ability to combine analysis with creative thinking and enables ideas and plans to be nurtured through to reality.
At the end of this course the participants will be able to:
Demonstrate innovative methods for harnessing others’ creative potential.
Communicate your vision in refreshing and engaging ways.
Define the concepts of ‘strategy’ and ‘strategic plans’.
Understand and explain visionary thinking as part of the strategic process and apply strategic planning to your own management issues.
Place your own part of the organization within the overall context of corporate strategy.
Gain confidence in managing your own contribution to strategic implementation.
Senior Management Professionals, Team Leaders, Supervisors, and All Professionals who are responsible for driving company growth by creating or eliciting new ideas and paradigms. Alternatively, you may be stuck with your own ‘logical’ career journey and seeking an opportunity to explore beyond its boundaries
Anyone who wants to forge innovative approaches to communications, or to human resource and training managers searching for breakthrough ideas and tools they can use to harness the creativity in others within their organization
Leadership Reality Assessment.
Leadership Vs Management.
Understanding Our Brain Function.
Myths of Creativity.
The limitations of the rational.
Divergent approaches to problem-solving.
Letting go of logic.
Analogous thinking modes.
Convergent and divergent modes.
Sigmoid Curve - Lifecycle Model.
Continuous Improvement.
Breakthrough step change.
Self-awareness and the nature of the ego.
Personal goal alignment.
Adaption and innovation: personal preferences for creating meaning.
Exploring attitudes to risk.
Left- and right-brain thinking.
Six thinking hats.
Using differing thinking styles.
JoHari’s window.
The business plan process & creating a vision.
Harnessing the power of the team.
Organizational culture and its influence on innovation.
Letting go of the ego.
Working with different creative preferences.
The 7 Step Creative Process.
Models of communication.
Viral visioning.
Authenticity and trust.
Creativity tools, techniques & strategy.
Letting go of the vision.
Leading without directing.
Possible leadership beliefs.
Motivation - Hierarchy of Needs.
Overcoming organizational barriers to creativity and change.
Nurturing a learning environment.
Is Money a motivator?.
Personality Profiling.
Building a creative consensus.
Engaging stakeholders creatively.
Influencing and motivating through change.
What are strategy and strategic planning?
Why are strategy and strategic planning important?
What are the main conceptual frameworks?
External analysis - understanding and analyzing business attractiveness - macro-environmental factors, growth drivers, competitive forces, market dynamics.
Benchmarking your own strategic position/competitor analysis.
Analyzing customers.
“Thinking backward from the customer”.
Mini-case on importance of external analysis.
The interface of external and internal analysis.
Internal analysis: financial.
Internal analysis; non-financial.
The concept and practicalities of the “balanced scorecard”.
Diagnosing strategic problems and opportunities.
The fusion of analyses into strategic choices - SWOT and the strategy matrix.
Case examples of strategic choice.
Mini-case on importance of internal analysis.
Review of the tools used so far.
The content of a strategy: avoiding “paralysis by analysis”.
Putting a strategic plan together – the 5-page framework.
A real-life example of a business strategy/strategic plan.
Strategies for alliances and joint ventures.
Example of best practice in alliances and joint ventures.
Introduction and briefing for the main case study.
First-phase group work on the main case study.
The essence of globalization and global strategy.
Globalization – the strategic dimension.
Globalization – the organizational dimension.
Globalization – the human dimension.
How to build and manage a strategic planning team.
Communicating strategy through the organization.
Gaining your team’s commitment and buy-in to the strategy.
Second-phase work on the main case study.
Final-phase work on the main case study.
Group presentations of the main case study.
Effective execution - converting strategic analysis and planning into action.
Linking strategy with operational objectives.
Implementation – getting practical things done.
Strategic planning of your own career.
Creating tomorrow’s organization out of today’s organization.
Conclusion - the corporate and individual value of strategic thinking
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This course is designed for participants to introduce to key issues and themes in international development.
Participants will explore and engage in academic debates and discussions around a set of key factors that shape, influence, and constrain the development and prosperity of nations.
The course will explore a number of key themes in international development, including how questions of gender and generation shape the impact of poverty; how processes of globalization, migration, and violent conflict impact development; and how development and the environment are linked.
It also considers what exactly we mean by poverty, and how different ways of understanding poverty feed into different approaches to tackling it.
It will also consider development institutions: what are the key institutions in the architecture of international development? How do they differ, and what are the challenges and opportunities they present? Through this module, participants will gain a solid background in the various factors which shape current approaches to and debates on international development.
By introducing participants to a range of problems in economic development, we will look to analyze how economic theory and models can explain the lack of development in some nations. We will apply such theory to real-world economies to understand the nature of the problems they face and how effective policies can be in tackling the problems.
Self-mastery is not achieved by accident - it is a process that occurs as we interact effectively with the events and circumstances of our lives. Each moment of our lives provides an opportunity to practice self-mastery by expanding our visions, awakening the faculties of our minds and our hearts, and assuming full responsibility for living, growing, and contributing. As we master our own emotions, we can enhance our ability to lead others, acting as a role model and someone others would truly wish to follow. Through this program, you will learn a great deal about yourself – how you think, how you perceive the world and how others perceive you, how you communicate and how you can enrich your communication skills - and through that process, you will learn how to lead others with great skill.
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Implementing an anti-bribery management system (ABMS) based on ISO 37001 has a number of advantages, including helping the organization avoid or reduce the costs, risks, and damage of being involved in bribery, fostering trust and confidence, encouraging due diligence and morally righteous business practices, etc. You must have the knowledge and abilities necessary to establish, implement, manage, maintain, and continuously enhance an ABMS in order to reap these benefits for your firm. The ISO 37001 Lead Implementer training course is where you should be for that. The training program aims to give participants a thorough understanding of ISO 37001 requirements as well as the best methods and techniques for setting up and maintaining the management system.
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